The highest tax rates fall on the middle classes, while the extreme rich pay much less. Zucman is also the author of the eponymous Taxe Zucman (unfortunately, there appears to be no English version of this article), whose intent is to make the French tax system more progressive for the top wealth holders. Interestingly, 86% of French voters support a 2% wealth tax on France's wealthiest 0.01%. But I wouldn’t hold breath, if I were you. Macron comes from the banking circles and is not about to become a traitor to his class. It might, indeed, take a revolution to solve France’s fiscal crisis, just as it happened last time.